Don’t think he’s being arrogant at all – he’s just been asked about a particularly difficult and troubling period in his life, and about a person whom he chose to share his life with, but who turned out to be a conniving and manipulative money chaser, who rejected his “daughter” Annie, sent her away from the house, and tried to have her dog killed. His eyes are closed in panel two, as he contemplates what happened with Trixie, and he finishes in panel three with a simple statement about his frustration at having tried to make the marriage work. Those are not the actions and statements of an arrogant person.

@Josh Lyons – tsull2121 (a long time poster) had several valid points in his post yesterday, especially about unfinished storylines (a number of which he listed) – the fact that he doesn’t like the use of cross over cartoon characters is his own opinion and was offered as the basis for his temporarily no longer following Dick Tracy and participating in the current discussion – I see nothing wrong with any of his remarks…

At Comics Kingdom you can have past “Annie” comics delivered daily to your mailbox – the current story, from 2003, currently has the Asp commanding the mountain soldiers of Saud the Remorseless in Raznestisan…

@tsull2121Not sure what the chief means by “the witness’s testimonial being missing” – was it a statement (prepared by the police or prosecutor) that the witness swore to and signed, or her typed up Grand Jury Testimony???

The thing is – with Grand Jury Testimony, the witness’s sworn testimony is 1st recorded by a court reporter on the reporter’s transcribing machine or memorialized on a tape recorder or disc – the testimony is then transcribed into a transcript of the witness’s testimony. If the latter transcript is lost or stolen, the reporter can be called in at the trial to read the testimony or if a disc or tape recording was made, if properly authenticated, it can be played to the jurors.